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Offline ladyvoid

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precipitation reaction
« on: February 04, 2012, 03:41:00 PM »
How would I balance Hg2Cl2(s) for a precipitation reaction? If you could run me through the steps that would be great.
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Re: precipitation reaction
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 03:47:05 PM »
OK, the first stem is to have a complete reaction.  So what did you start with, in the homework problem or laboratory.
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Re: precipitation reaction
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 04:32:14 PM »
That is all that I was given, along with "Use Na+ and NO3‾ as the spectator ions"
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Re: precipitation reaction
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 04:34:05 PM »
So you were given more.  ;)  OK, if you're supposed to leave out the spectator ions, what's left to be a reactant?
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Re: precipitation reaction
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 05:10:03 PM »
to tell you the truth, I'm not sure where to start. I just need to know the steps on how to solve this reaction... for some reason, I wasn't explained this properly.
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Re: precipitation reaction
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 11:48:25 AM »
the reaction would be something like this

chemicalA (aq) + chemicalB (aq) => chemicalC (aq) + chemicalD (solid)

In this thread, Hg2Cl2 was mentioned. Which one is it? A or B or C or D?
NaNO3 was also mentioned. Which one is it?
To be more precise, the NaNO3 is in solution so Na+ and NO3- was mentioned instead.
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